The mystery how to connect a PC floppy drive to a Turbo R is puzling me for
weeks now. Not that mine is broke, but for others it is a real disaster. For
example Crabytes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Rafael Rigues have a broken floppy
drive.
I knew I had read somewhere a reference to a dutch article about a dutch
group (MSX Club Gouda) connecting a standard floppy drive to the Turbo R
disk interface.
Scanning trough old Sunrise diskmaganies I found two interesting articles.
One is attached, the other pointed to MCMM issue 72 as the magazine with the
article I am looking for now for weeks. No wonder I could not find it, issue
72 is one of the few missing in my collection!
I am sure that it would be highly appreciated if someone with access to
issue 72 will make a scan of teh article (black and white, 300 dpi) (or
photocopy) and send it to me. I will translate and publish it on the web.
Article form Sunrise diskmagazine, translated:
Second D R I V E T U R B O R
Print 15 pens 34 pens
connection sub-d: shugart:
+5 volt : pen 1 pen 1 powerplug
Ground : pen 7 pen 2 powerplug
Ready : pen 6 pen 3 pen 34
Side select : pen 9 pen 4 pen 32
Read data : pen 11 pen 5 pen 30
Write protected: pen 12 pen 6 pen 28
Track 0 : pen 13 pen 7 pen 26
Write gate : pen 14 pen 8 pen 24
Write data : pen 16 pen 9 pen 22
Step : pen 18 pen 10 pen 20
Direction : pen 19 pen 11 pen 18
Motor on : pen 20 pen 12 pen 16
Drive select : pen 22 pen 13 pen 10
Index : pen 23 pen 14 pen 8
Disk change : pen 24 pen 15 pen 2
Drive set to DS0!!
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